Lessons with Dad

My Dad shares his testimony with the College Sunday School Class at Tallowood Baptist Church.

How to improve conversations. This discussion is based on the research of Allison Wood Brooks a researcher and O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University.

The conclusion of our study of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. We discuss the final three topics of the 6 Ways to Make People Like You. I'll bet you can guess the main topic we discuss...

Dale Carnegie teaches us the 6 ways we can make people like us. Yes!!! We can influence what people think of us and the tools are easy to use.

Continuing our series on How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Ruthie summarizes the first half of the book.

Continuing our study of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Principal 1: Don't Criticize - Never! Principal 2: Give Sincere Appreciation - Make others feel important! Principal 3: Arouse an Eager Want - By thinking about and understanding the other person's point of view.

We go through Chapter 1.

Continuing our series in Personal Finance and Ramit Sethi's book, I will Teach You to Be Rich, we jump into the importance of Credit. This can have an outsized impact on your lifetime wealth and we need to pay attention!

We go over the introduction of Ramit Sethi's book "I will Teach You to be Rich". - Top 10 Rules for a Rich Life

How Many Credit Cards should you have? What type of Credit Card should I get? How much should I pay on my Credit Card? We will answer all of these questions and more! We are following along with Ramit Sethi's book, I Will Teach You to be Rich. We highly recommend you buy his book and watch his Netflix show.

We go through what a credit card is and the motives of credit card companies. Once we understand how they work, we will be able to create strategies to stay out of debt and make credit cards work for us!

An introduction to our next series on Personal Finance. We will be studying the book I will Teach you to be Rich by Ramit Sethi. He has a great philosophy to money and we can learn a lot from his approach.

Ruthie and I recap the Know What You Believe Series and discuss what we learned and our favorite parts.

The conclusion of Acts. Paul sets sail and arrives in Rome, the center of the world at the time. Although he is under "house arrest" he continues to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Paul faces another trial, this time with Festus. King Agrippa visits and Paul gives his testimony and tries to convince all those listening to believe in Jesus. He is always preaching!

Paul was arrested in Jerusalem and now there is a plot to kill him. He is sent to Caesarea and to the Roman Governor Felix to stand trial. He is under house arrest for 2 years.

Paul arrives in Jerusalem and is quickly arrested. He gives a great speech to the audience that tells of his conversion to Christianity.

Paul builds the church in Ephesus and then prepares to travel to Jerusalem.

Paul travels to Corinth and spends a year and a half building a church family in the city. We have a great discussion about Judgement and what it means to be saved.

Paul and Silas continue preaching the good news. Many believe, but they are thrown in jail after casting out a spirit. God is with them and they are miraculously set free. We see that Luke, the author of the book of Acts, is with them on this journey and is documenting the events as a first hand witness.

The new Gentile believers don't know if they should follow all of the Jewish traditions. The church isn't sure, so they go to Jerusalem and meet with all of the believers. This is a great example of how the church then and now should resolve conflict.

Paul and Barnabas continue their first missionary journey. Just as Jesus saw persecution from the Jews, so did the disciples. But, Paul and Barnabas were not detered! They continued to preach and took their message to the Gentiles. Many believed and were strengthened in their faith. Paul and Barnabas preached and their message was confirmed through the miraculous signs they performed. The crowds w...

Paul begins his first missionary journey and begins preaching to the Jewish church. How will he be received? Let's see how God begins to grow the church...

James, one of Jesus' closest disciples, is martyred. Then, Peter is arrested and is set to go on public trial. The Christians are scared and their leaders are being killed and arrested. The believers are praying for a miracle! What will happen to Peter, the leader of the early church? Listen to find out...

Peter is questioned for his association with Gentiles and he explains how the Good News of Jesus is meant for EVERYONE and not just Jews.  We find out the first time the word "Christians" is used to describe believers.   The Good News is preached to the Greeks and other non-Jewish people.